The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Limos.


About Various Lines.
A new timetable goes into effect on the
Central to-day Intending travellers should
note the change.
Out of 319,120 miles of railroad in the
world the United States has l39,073, or
seven-sixteenths.
By December next it is expected that the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
will have advanced as far westward as
Cheyenne.
The Alabama Great Southern is extend
ing it's side track at Johnsons Mills, Ala,
for the benefit of the DeBardeleben coke
companies, and also building a quarry
| track.
! The Alabama Great Southern will erect a
new passenger and freight depot at Besse-
mer as soon as the material arrives. Some
of it is already on the ground. 1t will be
substantial structure.
The Louisville and Nashville is putting on
a heavy new iron bridge over the Alabama
river, about four miles north of Montgom-
cry. This is to replace the light structure
now spanning the river at that point. The
new bridge will be completed within thirty
days.
The Board of Directors of the Florida
Midland and Georgia Railroad Company
give notice, through an advertisement in
the Valdosta Times, of their intention to
extend the line of their road froms Valdosta
through the counties of Berriep, Irwin, Tel
fair, Dodge and Laurens, to Dublin. The
proposed line is mapped out via Chauncey,
in Dodge county.
The Americas Recorder SAYS: bridge
Contractor A. r. Coulter, of the Americas,
Preston and Lumpkin Railroad, has re-
ceived the contract for building the bridge
and trestles along the proposed line of road
between Abbeville and McRae, a distance
of twenty-eight miles, including the bridge
to be built across the Ocmulgee river. This
bridge will be nearly, if not quite, mile in
length, and will be built upon the same
plan used in the construction of the long
bridge over Flint river Mr. Coulter has
constructed all the bridges along the line of
the Americas, Preston and Lumpkin Road,
distance of nearly one hundred miles, and
in every instance his work has given emil
nent satisfaction to the road authorities"
The Baltimore people are getting excited
over the fact that the Pennsylvania railroad
has made close traffic arrangements with
the Richmond and West Point Terminal
Company for general Southern concession.
This concession, it is said, by harmonizing
conflicting interests and bringing the rail
and water lines into proper relationship
with each other, has secured to Baltimore
her long-coveted prize-an all-rail line to the
South. This substantial advantage has been
accomplished without the expenditure of
single dollar of additional capital by the
city or people, while the Baltimore and Ohio
has been frittering away it's time in the vain
endeavor to secure additional advantages
for Baltimore and itself by the construction
of a new line to New York.
Friday last, in Chattanooga, the building
of fourteen miles more of the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus Railroad were con-
tracted for This makes twenty miles of
the road now under contract. The first six
miles, which are from the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad, in Chattanooga, to within two
miles of the State line, were awarded TO S. S.
Eaton, of Illinois, and on which first dirt
was broken Wednesday The second con-
tract of fourteen miles, which commences at
the end of the six miles and reaches to Craw.
fish Springs, was let to Mr. T. B. Redmond,
Of Rome, and who is now one of the
contractors on the Richmond and Danville
railroad. Mr. Redmond will at once go ac-
lively to work. There is no reason
why 1,500, or 1900 men will not
be at work in and south of
Chattanooga inside of ten days. Just as
soon as the people living along the different
lines that have been surveyed in Walker
and Chattooga counties finish their stock
subscriptions, finish their rights of way and
make a tender to the company of these, the
line to be selected will be decided upon, and
more contracts will be let.